Word of the day: peng
I’ve only just discovered this word which shows how uncool I am. It’s a London slang word meaning:
very beautiful or attractive: I saw a girl – she was peng.
extremely good: That burger looks peng.
More examples
- That jacket is peng!
- I’d go out with that boy, he’s well peng.
- There was an online page called “Britain’s pengest teens“.
So where does the word come from?
I understand that ‘peng’ was originally a term used in Jamaica to describe high quality weed. It then came to mean someone who is really good looking. A lot of the London slang words are Jamaican in origin. They become popular through music and black Londoners links with the Caribbean.